Resubmission of a Previous Application

What is a Resubmission?

A resubmission is the same or similar application (similar aims) as one submitted in a previous cycle. For a resubmission, the applicant should use the same project title that was used in the original application. The project aims should be the same unless they have been modified in response to critiques or because of changes in approach that the investigator has decided to make since the original submission. Within the research plan, mark changes by using brackets, italics or bold (do not shade or underline changes). If major changes are made to the application or if this is a different/new project, it is not considered a resubmission.

An applicant who is unsuccessful in competition may submit the same or similar application three times (the original plus two resubmissions). The number of submissions of the same or similar application is determined by application deadline cycles. If an applicant submits the same science project in one cycle to two AHA funding sources (for example, one to an affiliate and one to the National program for the January deadline cycle), and this will be counted as one submission.

The same or similar application submitted for the fourth time will be withdrawn.

Applicants may only resubmit their own application. It is not acceptable to resubmit a proposal previously submitted by another investigator.

In order for an applicant to have the benefit of critiques from the previous cycle, a resubmitted application will be assigned to at least one of the primary reviewers that it was assigned to in the previous round, whenever possible. Reviewers for resubmitted applications will also be provided with the critiques and scores from the previous round for reference.

If major changes are made to the application or if this is an entirely different/new project, it should not be checked as a resubmission.

Note that AHA requires applicants to either be AHA Professional Members or to pay an application fee. This requirement applies to those who are submitting revised proposals. (Applicants to Undergraduate Student programs and Medical Student programs are exempt from this requirement.)

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